Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] KVM: selftests: Add support for creating non-default type VMs

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Wed, 2021-08-04 at 14:09 +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> On 7/27/2021 2:37 AM, Erdem Aktas wrote:
> > Currently vm_create function only creates KVM_X86_LEGACY_VM type VMs.
> > Changing the vm_create function to accept type parameter to create
> > new VM types.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h  |  1 +
> >   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 29 +++++++++++++++++--
> >   2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > index d53bfadd2..c63df42d6 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ int vcpu_enable_cap(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpu_id,
> >   void vm_enable_dirty_ring(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t ring_size);
> >   
> >   struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm);
> > +struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm, int type);
> >   void kvm_vm_free(struct kvm_vm *vmp);
> >   void kvm_vm_restart(struct kvm_vm *vmp, int perm);
> >   void kvm_vm_release(struct kvm_vm *vmp);
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> > index e5fbf16f7..70caa3882 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> > @@ -180,13 +180,36 @@ _Static_assert(sizeof(vm_guest_mode_params)/sizeof(struct vm_guest_mode_params)
> >    * Return:
> >    *   Pointer to opaque structure that describes the created VM.
> >    *
> > - * Creates a VM with the mode specified by mode (e.g. VM_MODE_P52V48_4K).
> > + * Wrapper VM Create function to create a VM with default type (0).
> 
> Can we pass KVM_X86_LEGACY_VM (whatever name when it's upstreamed) 
> instead of 0?

To be honest I would prefer this to be called something like KVM_X86_STANDARD_VM,
or something.

I don't think that normal unencrypted virtualization is already legacy, even if TDX
docs claim that.

Just my personal opinion.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

> 
> > + */
> > +struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm)
> > +{
> > +	return __vm_create(mode, phy_pages, perm, 0);
> > +}
> > +
> 
>